Repligen reviews

Toxic environment. Bosses lie. Rampant cronyism. People in positions that they don't belong in, don't deliver the work for their position but they are protected because they were brought in by people at the top that they are friends with. Everyone puts up with more and more stress until they're about to quit and then management does too little too late to help and people leave. People at the top are ridiculously arrogant and promise things and speak to customers about things that they don't actually know about. Then the workers have to work mega overtime to compensate for bad decisions. I saw this for two years not just single incidents, it's a pattern. They want to own their employees lives. They are not geared toward work / life balance, everyone works overtime. That stinks when you're salary or have a family or don't want to miss life, die young from stress etc. My boss worked 120 hours a week on a regular basis. They get a kick out of making people travel, especially when it's a hardship for the worker. They buy smaller companies that are in line with their industry and then gut them and destroy all the key parts of what made the product work because they think that their system of doing things is 'superior' when in fact it's entirely uninformed and inefficient. They don't care about the customer, they just want to use the systems that make them sound good on paper, likely because they are trying to sell the whole company to a bigger company later. Their business outlook is good because they basically cook the books at the customer's expense. Statements like 'Oh, we can't ship that this quarter, customer has to wait because revenue has to be perfect', 'we can't report that issue this quarter it will cost something that will make revenue not look perfect' is the tip of the ice burg. It feels unethical. These fancy systems make the work harder and delay delivery for the customer. I watched three companies go from having virtually no customer complaints to having a steady stream of issues after being bought by Repligen. Repligen likes to impose uneducated growth models on people that are already over allocated and over taxed. People get sick. It's sad and depressing. Sure they have all kinds of office parties and social things. But the workers in my group could only go to them if they made up for the work they'd miss by working nights and weekends. Not cool. I feel terrible bad mouthing anybody but in this case, BEWARE.

While the company's fast growth is impressive, the middle group of contributors suffers the most by not being appropriately staffed up or trained, which is impacted by the volume of people we took on during acquisitions. I supported a few hundred people, and while I loved the employees I worked with, it was difficult to support the workload. My manager was great at helping me prioritize, but so many people want immediate answers and as one person, there is only so much I could do. After moving to a new organization, there are a few things I realized we as an HR department were not handling well. The first was MA Sick - we did not provide any to temps or interns as was required by law, and to my knowledge we were not exempt. I also primarily handled FMLA/STD with our HR Business partner. When I went on my own leave, no letter of FMLA rights was provided to me, and I had to help file my own claim upon my return. I often felt that we were not setting up best practices or SOPs, which was evident whenever one of us was out of the office for an extended period of time. We were often strained by our individual responsibilities and had no SOPs in place to truly help the other employees who filled in for us in our absence. I do think the culture could use a lot of work. A high number of employees felt the demand of upper management without feeling supported. If you need ADA accommodations, be very clear and explicit, and educate yourself on your rights. I was worried I would not be supported with my needs outside of my direct managers, and I know another person whose accommodations were declined despite the fact that, in my opinion, they would not have proved undue hardship upon the company. I do not know if any attempt to compromise was made, and am only one person whose experience may differ greatly from others. I also was not approached for an exit interview, in which I would have been comfortable sharing these concerns. I hope that Repligen continues to grow with respect to its culture and people. My first year there was great, but once I went on leave it felt like everything went downhill past there. Instead of having conversations with me to better understand what I was going through or how it impacted work, some coworkers assumed I was unhappy with the work or unable to do it. It felt incredibly disrespectful, and ultimately I do not feel like I was heard or understood by anyone other than my manager and a handful of coworkers I worked closely with.